R. Barrass
Family background. Went to council school. Work as an office boy in Hawthorn Leslies. World war two. Bombings in Newcastle. Practical joke involving dead man's finger. Resigned, didn't like accounting. Balloted to become a Bevin boy. After training, drafted to Marley Hill Mine. Attitudes to Bevin boys. Pay. Real pit very different from training. Travel warrants. Noise in the pit. Two men killed, asked to clean up the mess. Shocked, asked for a transfer. Started at Lily Drift as a pony driver. Famous Bevan boys, got a later job from another. All classes could end up there. Had had a horse befor...

Jock Purdon music
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale